Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The good guys win another one

by digby

Hey all you pot loving libertarians! You don't have to join the anti-abortion, authoritarian right wing party of the rich. (Unless, that is, you secretly agree with it and think that low taxes for the wealthy and property rights are more important than personal freedom and ending the wars.) There are Democrats who believe in downsizing the military and ending the drug war too.

Howie at Down with Tyranny writes about Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic upstart who unseated one of the most regressive Democratic warmongers in the congress last night. And he's from Texas!

All the pundits and bloviating Beltway politicos ignored Beto O'Rourke's race against painfully long-term incumbent, Silvestre Reyes and said the young upstart had no chance. Even the commercialized progressive groups completely ignored his contest. But early voting went drastically in his direction and, despite Reyes, last minute, heavily funded (by the Military Industrial Complex) smear campaign, O'Rourke put him away nice and easy. Even as the votes were coming in, the most unctuous shills of the DC Establishment were hoping out loud that Beto would lose. This isn't about ideology, this is just about Establishment dick suckers sucking Establishment dick, which is what they get paid to do-- to the point where they become what they do. By the end they were publicly praying for a run-off or even a Republican victory in November. The Establishment and its miserable foot soldiers are very threatened by insurgents... and victorious insurgents make them want to kill themselves.

Congratulations to the Campaign for Primary Accountability for putting almost $200,000 into helping make Congress less institutionally corrupt-- and for, once again, making a complete laughing stock out of the ridiculous Cook Report, Washington's most clueless and utterly out-of-touch prognosticators.

The good guys won another one. And nobody believed it could happen.

Please click over to Howie's place to read about the next one of these fights against an entrenched, scandal riddled, Military Industrial Complex lackey --- Lee Rogers vs Buck McKeon. It's another one the insiders are clueless about. And this one's against a Republican.

At this point if Charlie Cook says something, you'd probably come out ahead in the end by betting on the opposite.